Article: Kingship and Politics in the Late Ninth Century: Charles the Fat and the End of the Carolingian Empire.(Book review)

Article: MacLean, Simon: Kingship and Politics in the Late Ninth ...
History: Review of New Books;  June 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Politics in the Late Ninth Century: Charles the Fat and the End of the Carolingian Empire Cambridge: Cambridge ... Politics in the Late Ninth Century: Charles the Fat and the End of the Carolingian Empire, the first-ever ...

Dictionary definition: Carolingian empire
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology;      345 words ...Carolingian empire [CP]. In archaeological and architectural usage this term relates ... immediately following the period of the FRANKISH empire. The Carolingian empire witnessed a cultural renaissance. The enormous wealth gained ...

Article: The Politics of Dreaming in the Carolingian Empire. ...
History Today;  December 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... who were immersed to thighs or waist in boiling water. Ninth-century dreams posed the same problems of interpretation as the bodily ... father. Marriage and arms were the ordered world of the later ninth century; Charles the Fat was staging ritual disorder, and at a ...

Article: Provencal
Encyclopedia of World Cultures;      700+ words ... ... after suffering successive invasions by the Franks from the north. Following the collapse of the Carolingian Empire in the ninth century and until the beginning of the eleventh century, Provence formed part of a series of kingdoms set up ...

Article: Restoring chivalry.(A)(Culture, Et Cetera)
The Washington Times;  August 16, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... the fall of the Roman Empire in the fifth century and again after the collapse of the more precarious Carolingian Empire in the ninth century. There was no government. There was no police force. Property and persons were utterly at the mercy ...

Article: Gregorian Chant and the Carolingians.
Church History;  June 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... books. By the later ninth century, as a result of ... circulated throughout the Carolingian empire, until the increasingly ... musical notation in the ninth century from a relatively ... uniformity in the Carolingian empire. Because Pepin and ...

Article: What caused the Viking Age?(Research)
Antiquity;  September 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... catalysts leading to fragmentation of the Carolingian empire and it created the semi-independent ... particularly late eighth- to early ninth-century) Scandinavian raiding in the west ... of evidence from the middle of the ninth century and later has often led scholars of ...